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Night Beat

Usage: Public Domain

Old Time Radio

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Calfkiller Old Time Radio

Addeddate: 2007-02-06 11:32:58

Boxid: OL100020616

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-31T17:45:02Z

Identifier: NightBeat

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Reviewer: harron68 - - January 2, 2019
Subject: Great Old Time Radio

The series represents a reporter's-eye-view, not so much the limitations of a mystery like "Flashgun Casey." The stories are varied with a superior cast and clever scripts.

Reviewer: Tenagra - - January 29, 2018
Subject: Stops dead in its tracks.

This is the only place where I can find this show and it always halts with an error about 10 seconds in. What gives?

Reviewer: lonie - - April 10, 2017
Subject: Night Beat

Previewed About 20 Of The Files And Yes There Not Perfect ! As Old As They Are It's Amazing They Even Survived ! It Is Ashame With Todays Technology Someone Hasn't Cleaned Them Up ! I For One Wouldn't Have A Clue ! Too Bad I Sure Would !

Reviewer: oldmusicfreak - - January 26, 2014
Subject: Quality

Nightbeat was one of the better dramatic programs. Good stories, and Frank Lovejoys performance was great. True, some of the shows are not of the best quality soundwise, but the few I listened to were acceptable. As old as these shows are, you cant expect them to be perfect.

Reviewer: Charlie Heinz - - January 8, 2013
Subject: Technical Quality

These are good shows. But like a lot of archive.org shows, the technical quality varies widely. Usually, the first shows are muffled and are full of audio tape dropout. It's a shame that the person re-recording them couldn't have simply paid attention to the quality. I had to go to the tenth show before the quality got somewhat consistent. It's not enough to simply compile shows. The quality has to be there, too.

Reviewer: eh_ver - - May 1, 2012
Subject: nightbeat

As a Sansa owner, I also had a problem listening to the episodes. I managed to listen to "Zero" on the otr blog, but other sites, even, have been uncooperative with downloading. Really too bad, as Zero was really good and pretty much exactly what I like in radio heroes. Any suggestions for downloading elsewhere??? REALLY want to continue on with the series!

Reviewer: Bill Holmberg - - April 21, 2012
Subject: It's the best.

Night Beat is my favorite radio show of all. The descriptions of late night Chicago really put you there. The stories are varied and truly entertaining in every way.

Reviewer: Tim Szeliga - - April 16, 2012
Subject: A Case of Butter

Nightbeat is uniformly good,
but the episode "A Case of Butter"
is spectacular. Twists, suspense,
humor,... its got it all.
Check it out!

Reviewer: bobjdepaul - - December 23, 2010
Subject: Golden Age of Radio

The scripts of this show were so well written that you felt you were really there. Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone was a perfect matching of actor and character.

Reviewer: Anatoon - - December 11, 2009
Subject: Night Beat

Night Beat has always been one of my favorite radio programs. Frank Lovejoy does a superb job as Randy Stone a likable news-reporter searching the big city streets of Chicago for a human interest story for his paper. What he finds are the little known dramatic events that happen in the lives of the people he meets.

Reviewer: mixiearmadillo - - March 15, 2009
Subject: zip file incomplete

Only contains three episodes!
Update: downloaded all, most episodes corrupted for play on MP3 player. Track will play partway through but will skip at precise points to next track. You can scan past skip but track will skip again at the same points every time. Many files in the archive appear to be corrupted this way. They are playable if converted to .wav form and played in standard CD player, or if played on the computer... so possibly an issue with my Sansa Clip MP3 player? Not sure, but many series I've downloaded from this archive do it. Even so, I'm thrilled to have them. Wish I could listen to these all the way through.

Reviewer: nightkey5 - - June 26, 2007
Subject: Misdated Shows

Night_Beat_50_04_16_xxxx_World_Of_His_Own_Special_Rebroadcast_Certified_but_is_it.mp3 was actually
was 50-04-10 I Know Your Secret (Randy Stone fishes Wanda Rhodes out of the river) The 50-04-16 broadcast was
from a special repeat week and following the pattern of the other shows from that week should open with
"The National Broadcasting Company wishes to call your attention to a program regularly heard on Monday evenings..."

Night_Beat_51_07_20_0051_The_City_At_Your_Fingertips.mp3 was actually from 50-07-31

Night_Beat_52_06_26_0099_Reformer.mp3 was 52-07-03 The Old Itch

Night_Beat_52_07_03_0100_The_Old_Itch.mp3 was 52-07-03 Reformer

Reviewer: telegonus - - April 22, 2007
Subject: Good Stuff, Evokes Its Era Nicely

NIGHTBEAT was a very good series about a peripatetic newspaperman, Randy Stone, excellently portrayed by Frank Lovejoy. Some of the episodes are prosaic and predictable, others quite moving. The series doesn't quite reach the heights of its better known contemporary, DRAGNET, but it has a nice feel for big city life circa 1950, give or take a year or two, and some of the writing is first rate. The setting is Chicago, and the show "uses" the city effectively and realistically. Someone had clearly done his homework on this one. I wish the writers had reached a little higher, though, been more experimental, tried a little harder to be original. Still, on its own terms, NIGHTBEAT was a well above average series.

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